The plane hit the ground in grass about 300 feet from the end of the runway, Loomis said.

“They apparently bounced onto the pavement, skidded down the pavement and veered off to the right,” he said. “There is a trail of jet fuel from their impact area, which was in the grass, to where it sits now to the right of the runway north of the terminal.”

Officials say the plane caught fire and the blaze was quickly extinguished. Loomis said he could not speculate on whether weather was a factor.

Visibility at the time of the crash was 2 miles and the ceiling was about 500 feet, National Weather Service officials in Lubbock said. A light freezing drizzle was falling at the time, they said.

Daniel Baker from the National Transportation Safety Board’s Denver office was en route to Lubbock to investigate, safety board spokesman Peter Knudson said. Loomis said an investigator from Washington, D.C. will assist in the investigation.